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EU Releases GH¢28million To Promote Bamboo

ACCRA, Ghana, Feb. 19 (GNA) - The European Union (EU) has released 28 million Ghana cedis to support a project that seeks to promote bamboo as a new source of energy in Ghana and Ethiopia. The project dubbed: "Bamboo as a Sustainable Biomass Energy: A suitable Alternative for Charcoal and Firewood Production in Africa," aim’s at increasing the use of bamboo as a source of energy for the poor while providing a more sustainable, environmental friendly and economical option to firewood and charcoal.

Boost for Parliamentary Action in Support of Agricultural Development

ACCRA, Ghana, October 5 (Public Agenda) — The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and the Association of European Parliamentarians for Africa (AWEPA) announced a new partnership to support African parliamentarians as they promote policies to help smallholder farmers make the transition' from subsistence to market-oriented agriculture, a change that will require a comprehensive transformation of Africa's agricultural system.

World Habitat Day: Governments In Africa Must End Forced Evictions

LONDON, October 5, (Amnesty International) - Governments in Africa must end the practice of forced evictions that leave hundreds of thousands homeless every year, Amnesty International has said ahead of World Habitat Day on 5 October 2009.

Cocoa By-Products Are Indusrially Useful

ACCRA, Ghana, Sept 25 (GNA) - Florence Yeboah Asuamah, Principal Public Affairs Officer of the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG), has urged industrialists to invest in the by-products of cocoa since almost all the parts of the plant could be developed into various products.